• @Lophostemon@aussie.zone
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      291 year ago

      That’s exactly what happened and it’s not secret. They are referred to in some publications as ‘the couple’.

      • @Cinner@lemmy.worldB
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        Where did you see that they were a couple?

        The newspaper said the unnamed Moroccan man is married to a woman of Spanish origin with two children, and that Mr Puech refers to them as his “children”, “daughter-in-law” and “adopted son”.

        It said he was particularly touched at the way they looked after him during the Covid pandemic.

        Sounds like he’s a reclusive hermit who inherited family wealth, and wants to give it to the only friends/family he has.

        • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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          11 year ago

          And, of course, the only people he thinks are in need and “deserve” it are the few members of the unwashed masses he interacted with on a daily basis that he views as worthy of his unearned fortune.

          • @Cinner@lemmy.worldB
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            Reclusive hermit

            has 1 chosen “family” that took care of him and loved him

            leaves half his fortune to that family

            confusing innit?

  • DessertStorms
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    …creating yet another billionaire, who, like all the others, didn’t earn that money. As is tradition.

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        81 year ago

        There is no mathematical way for his work to be worth 5 billion, not even if he had magical powers and turned the whole garden into pure gold in the process. Not if he worked for 500 years straight, every day, without a break.

        A billion is such a fantastically large number people can’t relate to how much more it is than any normal job pays in wages.

        • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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          He worked and apparently someone valued his work plus presence plus…😉 For billions. He won it.

          If you can get paid for your efforts, your product, and someone values it, then that’s what it’s worth.

      • DessertStorms
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        Way to deliberately miss the point… I said “creating” not “adding”, it isn’t about the number of billionaires, but how they become that.

        • @HollandJim@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          And you missed my point - it’s migrating value, not creating new value. Anyway, being pedantic also misses the point - we should take up gardening. 👍